SUMMARY

• Experienced working in high - pressure multitasking environments with management to support organizational objectives.
• Highly self-motivated and always is eager to work as part of a team to utilize each skill and learn from others at the same time.
• me is experienced in Application Release Pipelines, Quality Assurance, and Process Implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: AWS, EC2, Amazon S3/Glacier, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes kubectl, Kubernetes RBAC, WeaveWorks eksctl, Calico - Network Policy Resource, Helm, Tiller, NGINX, Bitnami, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Lambda, AWS CodeStar, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, Cloud9, CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, IAM, Amazon Cognito, AWS Amplify, AWS AppSync, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, fluentd, Kibana (EFK), YAML, Docker

Programming Languages: C/C++, Cobol, Java, Java Beans, JavaScript, Java Swing, VB Script, PowerShell, Swift 4.2

Operating System: Windows, macOS, iOS, Amazon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CRM: SAP 6.2 Functions AP etc, Siebel 7.5 and 7.8, PeopleSoft, BizTalk 2006/2010, Oracle Insurance Insbridge Framework

Databases: Microsoft Access, SQL Server 2012, Advanced Query Tool (AQT) Ver 5, Quest Toad, Redgate SQL Compare, Redgate Data Compare 6, Firebase, Amazon DynamoDB

Software: Corel Office, Office 365, Norton Ghost, PartitionMagic, VI Editor, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio Team System Suite, Team Foundation Server, VSTS, Azure Devops, Visual Build Pro 6.6/7.2, Tidal, Jenkins, github, gitLab

Testing Software: QAP, CCC Harvest, Mercury Quick Test Pro 6.5, Mercury Test Director 8.0, Mercury LoadRunner 7.8, Rational Rose 2000, Rational Clearquest 2003, Rational Requisite Pro 2003, Rational Robot 2003, Rational Test Manager, Silk Test Segue QA Partner, Segue SilkCentral 3.2, Segue SilkPerformer, XSteam Software’s Rapidbuilder, Microsoft Virtual PC, VMware, DevTrack 6.2

Web Page Design: ASP/CGI, Cascading Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, HTML, XML, SharePoint, IIS

Web Design Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 15

Process Design and Logic: Software Configuration Management, Change Control, SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), COBIT 4.0, Six Sigma Lite, ITIL, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Release Management Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate releases with Project Managers, Network Operations and DBA teams that were approved thru a weekly change control meeting.
• Managed deployments to specific environments such as QA, UAT, and Production using Visual Studio Team Services.
• Assisted in the development of a deployment Procedure that would automate the deployment of SQL scripts, websites and web services. me also created Powershell scripts to configure IIS setups.
• As part of the IT department me was also involved in providing insight into the branching procedures with Azure Devops for each of the main product lines for Access Insurance.
• Deployed Jenkins build agents and test environments on EC2 spot instances for our CI/CD process running in containers to assist in maximum performance and assist in cost reduction.

Confidential, GA

Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Customized Team Foundation Server specifically for Integrative Logic by creating new work items that consisted of submitting build requests, defects, and enhancements/change requests.
• Responsible for supporting both internal and production servers that included IIS configuration, permissions, and database optimization.
• Infrastructure included virtual machines running on VMware, Windows Server 2008, and each machine was open only to certain groups that had access based on permissions.
• Utilized Visual Build Pro 7.2 in combination with the new build request work items created in Team Foundation Server to fully automate the build process and minimize the amount of manual steps and email requests.
• Attend weekly project resource and requirement functional meetings in combination with deployment schedules.

Confidential, GA

Software Configuration Management

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing all build requests submitted as work items in Visual Studio 2008 TFS.
• Configuring IIS6/IIS7 for all dev, qa, uat and production web servers.
• Creating all new Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 databases for all dev, qa, uat and production db servers.
• Utilized Visual Build Pro 6.6 to create deployment templates that had the ability to get the latest version of code from Visual Studio 2008 TFS, execute SQL changes, copy all code to the web servers and test each site after deployment.
• Attend weekly project resource meetings to maintain SCM billable utilization.
• Maintained SCM department budgets.

Confidential, GA

Application Analyst 2

Responsibilities:

• Process Manager responsible for maintaining and ensuring that both the QA and Problem Management Processes were being followed and documented for each project that involved QA.
• Analyzed and provided KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) on process improvements at bi annual P&me counsel meetings.
• Ensured that both QA and Problem Management process abided by the COBIT and ITIL guidelines.
• Attended Six Sigma Training to provide process improvement based on SOX audit results.
• Attended weekly change control meetings to ensure IT requests had passed QA and would of the proper QA support at the time the change went into production.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Web Application Tester me

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with project managers and client to define form type and layout for defect entry templates.
• Troubleshoot Production support issues.
• Quality Assurance (Functional Testing, Performance testing, Regression testing).
• Enter defects utilizing Silk Central.
• Create job aids and documentation for future references in the QA department.
• Involved in testing Manual, Functional, Regression, Performance testing, Black Box testing,
• Performed positive and negative testing
• Documented and communicated test results utilizing scorecards.
• Create and maintain Silk Test and Silk Performer scripts
• Participate in test case reviews and modified them according to business requirements

Confidential, GA

QA Engineer me

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for attending JAD sessions to develop strategic QA project plans.
• Provided Scorecards on a weekly basis for each project status that was currently in QA.
• Responsible for testing both client front-end websites and also the backend Cobol programs processing the rewards points.
• While testing the client front-end websites me was responsible for setting up the QA site and UAT sites. dis included moving all asp files from development to the QA IIS web server folders, setting up site URL’s, and image files.
• Advanced Query Tool (AQT) Ver 5 was used to populate the QA database and PowerBuilder 7.0 was used to populate the UAT database with test data.
• Responsible for setting up the UAT sites in the same manner.
• Rational Robot 2003 was utilized to write and execute automated scripts to test the front-end websites.
• Rational Test Manager was utilized to store all of the automated scripts for the websites and all of the manual scripts for the backend testing.
• me was also involved in a major new implementation for Home Depot written in java.
• Responsible for writing several test case scenarios, attending several project meetings, and testing dis new site. Quest Toad Ver 8.0.0.47 was utilized to connect to an Oracle database to populate only the QA database with test data.